Édouard Vuillard prints and canvas wall art
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter of the Nabis group, with Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. He is best known for small interiors full of pattern, where people seem to melt into the wallpaper. Critics call this quiet, domestic style Intimism. With more than 90 works, this is our largest single-artist collection.
Interiors and family
Vuillard lived with his mother, a corset maker, for most of his life. She appears again and again, as in Madame Vuillard in a Red Robe (about 1911). Early works such as The Thread (1893) and Intimacy (1896) show women sewing and reading. Woman in a Striped Dress (1895) mixes stripes, flowers and wallpaper into one surface.
Friends, patrons and the stage
Vuillard painted the circle around the magazine La Revue Blanche and its owner, Thadée Natanson. See Thadée Natanson in His Office (about 1898). Later, the dealer Jos Hessel and his wife Lucy became close friends, and Lucy appears in many works. Vuillard also designed theater sets, as in Inn Interior, Set Design for La Lépreuse. In the 1920s and 1930s he painted society portraits, such as Study for the Portrait of Anna de Noailles (1931).
Landscapes, rooftops and flowers
Vuillard also painted gardens, streets and rooftops. The Mauve Roofs (1909) looks across Paris roofs in soft violet. His flower paintings, such as Anemones on a Small Table, suit a bedroom or a dining room. His early still life The Smoked Herring (1888) shows how dark his palette was before the Nabis years.
Where Vuillard prints fit
Vuillard prints have soft color and small, busy scenes. They suit reading corners, bedrooms and dining rooms, where people look closely. Mid-size prints show the pattern best. Gold and walnut frames bring out his warm browns and reds. White frames lighten the darker interiors.
Sizes and formats
Sizes run from 8 × 12 to 28 × 42 inches, or from 11 × 14 to 30 × 40 inches. The range depends on the shape of the work. Each product page shows the current price for every size and format. Frames come in black, white, gold, silver, walnut and oak. The paper is 340gsm, 100% cotton rag, and ships rolled in a tube. The canvas is acid-free, with giclée printing rated for more than 100 years of fade resistance. Some works also come as 3:1 panoramic prints, from 8 × 24 to 20 × 60 inches.
Related collections
See more of his interiors in Vintage Portrait Paintings, and his flowers in Vintage Still Life Paintings. For his darker rooms, see Moody Wall Art. For the painters who came just before him, see Impressionist Art Prints.